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A touch screen, though, is a purely electronic component with no moving parts. As such, I would guess that its failure rate is lower than that of a mechanical switch.
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Do you really think so???
(Maybe it is a language question. With failures I don't mean that touch screens stop functioning at all. I mean all the little quirks and problems people describe for instance in this thread. Contrary to buttons, touch screens do seem to have very much a head of their own if and when and how they want to react.) |
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Sorry, yes, I was referring to situations where the touch screen "breaks".
I find the IR touch screen of the Kindle Touch to be extremely reliable in use. I never get unwanted page turns, or anything of that nature. |
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I can only imagine the agonies those people who worry about moving their thumb a fraction of an inch must have gone through when turning the page of a paper book . |
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I totally agree. I have a 650 and I have used the physical page turn buttons maybe 3 times in almost a year.
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My kindle restored my ability to enjoy reading again, thanks to these touches that wouldn't have seemed important to me either, until I needed them. I *love* my Samsung 2 tablet, but I'd be lost without the Swype keyboard on it. Even with it, it takes me forever to type anything legible. Trying to edit, hit a link, or highlight a word on it or a touch reader is... argh. At least my kindle had text_to-speech, and my Galaxy Tab lets me use Ivona text-to-speech. :thumbup: I know people like me are a minority, and I'd never want to restrict tech to catering to us, but I'm really happy Amazon has kept the k3 in their lineup for us. I just hope they give it needed updates to it. Eta: please forgive typos, etc. Tapatalk won't let me preview, and see above re editing. Last edited by Piper_; 09-10-2012 at 10:33 AM. |
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